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The clique chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of colors required to assign to its vertex set so that no inclusion maximal clique is monochromatic. McDiarmid, Mitsche and Pra\l at proved that the clique chromatic number of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Yury Demidovich , Maksim Zhukovskii

Let $\alpha(G)$ and $\beta(G)$, denote the size of a largest independent set and the clique cover number of an undirected graph $G$. Let $H$ be an interval graph with $V(G)=V(H)$ and $E(G)\subseteq E(H)$, and let $\phi(G,H)$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Farhad Shahrokhi

There are distributed graph algorithms for finding maximal matchings and maximal independent sets in $O(\Delta + \log^* n)$ communication rounds; here $n$ is the number of nodes and $\Delta$ is the maximum degree. The lower bound by Linial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Juho Hirvonen , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie , Jukka Suomela

We prove that Sherali-Adams with polynomially bounded coefficients requires proofs of size $n^{\Omega(d)}$ to rule out the existence of an $n^{\Theta(1)}$-clique in Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs whose maximum clique is of size $d\leq…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Susanna F. de Rezende , Aaron Potechin , Kilian Risse

In this work we contribute to the study of the fine-grained complexity of problems parameterized by multi-clique-width, which was initiated by F\"urer [ITCS 2017] and pursued further by Chekan and Kratsch [MFCS 2023]. Multi-clique-width is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Vera Chekan , Stefan Kratsch

The maximal clique problem, to find the maximally sized clique in a given graph, is classically an NP-complete computational problem, which has potential applications ranging from electrical engineering, computational chemistry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Weng-Long Chang , Qi Yu , Zhaokai Li , Jiahui Chen , Xinhua Peng , Mang Feng

In this work, we give the sharp upper bound for the number of cliques in graphs with bounded odd circumferences. This generalized Tur\'an-type result is an extension of the celebrated Erd\H{o}s and Gallai theorem and a strengthening of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Zequn Lv , Ervin Győri , Zhen He , Nika Salia , Chuanqi Xiao , Xiutao Zhu

The congested clique model is a message-passing model of distributed computation where the underlying communication network is the complete graph of $n$ nodes. In this paper we consider the situation where the joint input to the nodes is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Pedro Montealegre , Sebastian Perez-Salazar , Ivan Rapaport , Ioan Todinca

Finding a maximum clique in a given graph is one of the fundamental NP-hard problems. We compare two multi-core thread-parallel adaptations of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem, and provide a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

Finding cliques in random graphs and the closely related "planted" clique variant, where a clique of size k is planted in a random G(n, 1/2) graph, have been the focus of substantial study in algorithm design. Despite much effort, the best…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Raghu Meka , Aaron Potechin , Avi Wigderson

Let $n(k_1, k_2)$ be the least integer $n$ such that there exists a graph on $n$ vertices in which every vertex is contained in both a clique of size $k_1$ and an independent set of size $k_2$. Recently, Feige and Pauzner showed that ${n(k,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Veronica Bitonti , Emma Hogan , Tommy Walker Mackay

We consider a variant of the planted clique problem where we are allowed unbounded computational time but can only investigate a small part of the graph by adaptive edge queries. We determine (up to logarithmic factors) the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Miklós Z. Rácz , Benjamin Schiffer

There are many methods to find a maximum (or maximal) clique in large networks. Due to the nature of combinatorics, computation becomes exponentially expensive as the number of vertices in a graph increases. Thus, there is a need for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-27 S. Y. Chan , K. Morgan , J. Ugon

In the theory of dense graph limits, a graphon is a symmetric measurable function $W:[0,1]^2\to [0,1]$. Each graphon gives rise naturally to a random graph distribution, denoted $\mathbb{G}(n,W)$, that can be viewed as a generalization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Gweneth McKinley

Recently Chase determined the maximum possible number of cliques of size $t$ in a graph on $n$ vertices with given maximum degree. Soon afterward, Chakraborti and Chen answered the version of this question in which we ask that the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rachel Kirsch , Jamie Radcliffe

We study a planted clique model introduced by Feige where a complete graph of size $c\cdot n$ is planted uniformly at random in an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph. We give a simple deterministic algorithm that, in almost linear time, recovers a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Francesco Agrimonti , Marco Bressan , Tommaso d'Orsi

The theory of dense graph limits comes with a natural sampling process which yields an inhomogeneous variant G(n,W) of the Erdos-Renyi random graph. Here we study the clique number of these random graphs. We establish the concentration of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Martin Doležal , Jan Hladký , András Máthé

Given a fixed graph $H$, a real number $p\in(0,1)$, and an infinite Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $G\sim G(\infty,p)$, how many adjacency queries do we have to make to find a copy of $H$ inside $G$ with probability $1/2$? Determining this number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Ryan Alweiss , Chady Ben Hamida , Xiaoyu He , Alexander Moreira

Given an integer $k$, deciding whether a graph has a clique of size $k$ is an NP-complete problem. Wilf's inequality provides a spectral bound for the clique number of simple graphs. Wilf's inequality is stated as follows: $\frac{n}{n -…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hareshkumar Jadav , Sreekara Madyastha , Rahul Raut , Ranveer Singh

Finding the maximum clique is a known NP-Complete problem and it is also hard to approximate. This work proposes two efficient algorithms to obtain it. Nevertheless, the first one is able to fins the maximum for some special cases, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-21 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin